In my view, not only the best book (written in English) on Benjamin AND Nietzsche but also on Nietzsche or Benjamin in the last, say 30 years; it would be shame if this volume simply receded in the onrush of appearing new scholarship. McFarland's is the only book I know of that is equal in conceptual speed to the thought of his subjects; mimetic in that tense, the writing is incisive, suggestive, eloquent, a McFarland sentence is not a freight car carrying a load of thought but, in its immediate complexity and richness, conveys the gestation-arrival of thought itself.This book should be required reading for anyone in the humanities concerned with the impact of one major figure on another ( for instance Shakespeare on Donne) since McFarland demonstrates a conceptual physics that is far more revealing than than of simple precedential influence, configuring a dimension of ( in Henry Sussman's words) " inexorable interfaces of shared interpretation and critique, "a knowing-time" of thoughtful interrelationship. A wonderfully stimulating and illuminating volume. (And may I add, I am not an acquaintance or associate of the author.)
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